Prize-winning Swiss film starring talented Ukrainian gymnast explores talent, expectation and the pain of exile
Author Archives: imogenglad
Review of the Kevin Barry book ‘Night Boat to Tangier’ (Ireland)
Two bantering Irish criminals contemplate life while waiting at a Spanish ferry port
We Had to Remove this Post by Hanna Bervoets (Netherlands)
A dystopian Dutch romance set in the world of content moderation
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine (Lebanon)
A introspective novel about a woman cloistered in her apartment in Lebanon for 50 years, accompanied only by great works of literature.
Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood and three other mini book reviews
Three mini reviews of the latest in my 20 books of summer
The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna (Sierra Leone)
Love, trauma and memory in Sierra Leone
They by Kay Dick (UK)
Long out of print, rediscovered dystopian fiction
Your Ad Could Go Here by Oksana Zabuzhko (Ukraine)
Contemporary short stories from Ukraine
Claudine’s House by Colette (France)
Colette’s evocative memoir of a rural, animal-laden and loving French childhood
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937, Russia)
Speculative Russian dystopia from the 1920s
Imogen is Reading and Watching the World: On Books, Film, Art & More 